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Top 25 Research database providers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 192 company matches for research database providers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 14,067 professional contacts across them, including 5,212 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Pune the largest hub.
This list covers company matches for research database providers worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed September 21, 2026. Country and city lists for research database providers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest research database providers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,110 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Be Part of Progress - together we bring greater understanding to the world Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 2 | 2,332 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “At EBSCO Information Services, we hire great people and let them thrive.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 3 | 772 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Springer Nature publishes journals, databases and online products and services across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 4 | 741 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ProQuest, from Clarivate, is committed to supporting the important work happening in the world’s research and learning communities.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 5 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 6 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Publishing Health” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 7 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 8 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure is an internationally leading provider of scientific information and services.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 9 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Informatics provides affordable and cutting-edge information Products and Services to the Indian research community such as academic institutions, research institutes, and…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 10 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “SSRN is an online repository of scholarly research.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 11 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Orbis Research is a single point aid for all your market research requirements.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 12 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften versteht sich als zentrale lebenswissenschaftliche Informationsinfrastruktur für Deutschland und Europa und als treibende Kraft…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 13 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Al Manhal is the leading Arabic electronic information provider.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 14 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 15 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “IJRDO Journal was founded in 2014 by Naeem Akhtar and Naveen Malik.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 16 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “OUR MISSION; FREE FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE Knowledge sharing is the core business of the Library.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 17 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Integrated Research Suite for every researcher” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Phoenix Bioinformatics is the nonprofit home of trusted, community-led research tools, resources, & database solutions, including MorphoBank & TAIR.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Content Online provides you with essential and leading research from some of the world’s most influential publishers, working every day towards the betterment of humanity.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Compañía líder en el suministro y gestión de información y contenidos para la comunidad académica, centros hospitalarios, de investigación y el sector corporativo.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “DeepDyve is the company behind LitHub, an AI-powered literature-management platform offering researchers affordable, publisher-licensed access to scientific, technical, and…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Zendy has been created with an aim of radically facilitating access to academic literature.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ScienceOpen is a freely accessible, interactive discovery platform that is aggregating new records each day.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “JCS Online Resources helps schools around the world access high-quality trusted content to support exceptional teaching, effective learning, and student achievement.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Teldan Information Systems is a leading global provider of information products and services for over three decades.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 21, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
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- Every country. Country and city lists for research database providers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “research database providers” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
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- Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
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- RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
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- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
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- Every displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 5,212 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
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Research database providers by location
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RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “research database providers”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.
How many research database providers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 192 company matches for research database providers worldwide as of September 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.
What is the largest company on this list?
Springer Nature tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.
Which country has the most research database providers?
The United States leads with 42 companies. Every research database providers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most research database providers?
Pune leads with 7 company records, followed by New Delhi (5) and Dubai (4).
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A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 5,212 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 192 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.
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The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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Top 25 research database providers worldwide
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Describe the businesses you want in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch matches company descriptions by meaning.
RevenueBase records 192 matching company records for research database providers worldwide, with 14,067 tracked contacts and 5,212 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: September 21, 2026.
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Top 25 research database providers worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Springer Naturegroup.springernature.comHQ: Berlin, United KingdomReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Berlin, United Kingdom | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 7,110 contacts → |
“Be Part of Progress - together we bring greater understanding to the world Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 |  Ebsco Information Servicescareers-ebscoind.icims.comHQ: Ipswich, MA, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Ipswich, MA, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,332 contacts → |
“At EBSCO Information Services, we hire great people and let them thrive.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 |  Nature Portfolionature.comHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 501-1,000 | London, United Kingdom | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 772 contacts → |
“Springer Nature publishes journals, databases and online products and services across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Proquest, From Clarivateproquest.com HQ: Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 741 contacts → |
“ProQuest, from Clarivate, is committed to supporting the important work happening in the world’s research and learning communities.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 |  BMCbiomedcentral.comHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 201-500 | London, United Kingdom | 201-500 | Exact match | 656 contacts → |
“BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | Elsevier For Healthelsevier.com HQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | New York, NY, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 200 contacts → |
“Publishing Health” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 |  Springerspringer.comHQ: Berlin, GermanyReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Berlin, Germany | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 163 contacts → |
“Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 |  FIZ Karlsruhefiz-karlsruhe.deHQ: Eggenstein-leopoldshafen, GermanyReported employees: 201-500 | Eggenstein-leopoldshafen, Germany | 201-500 | Exact match | 143 contacts → |
“FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure is an internationally leading provider of scientific information and services.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | Informatics Publishing Limitedinformaticsglobal.com HQ: Bangalore, IndiaReported employees: 51-200 | Bangalore, India | 51-200 | Exact match | 98 contacts → |
“Informatics provides affordable and cutting-edge information Products and Services to the Indian research community such as academic institutions, research institutes, and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 |  SSRNssrn.comHQ: Ny, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Ny, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 94 contacts → |
“SSRN is an online repository of scholarly research.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 |  Orbis Researchorbisresearch.comHQ: Pune, IndiaReported employees: 201-500 | Pune, India | 201-500 | Exact match | 78 contacts → |
“Orbis Research is a single point aid for all your market research requirements.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | ZB MEDzbmed.de HQ: Köln, GermanyReported employees: 51-200 | Köln, Germany | 51-200 | Exact match | 71 contacts → |
“ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften versteht sich als zentrale lebenswissenschaftliche Informationsinfrastruktur für Deutschland und Europa und als treibende Kraft…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | AL Manhalalmanhal.com HQ: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReported employees: 51-200 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 51-200 | Exact match | 71 contacts → |
“Al Manhal is the leading Arabic electronic information provider.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 |  JSTORjstor.orgHQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | New York, NY, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 65 contacts → |
“JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 |  Ijrdo Journalijrdo.orgHQ: Gurugram, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | Gurugram, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 54 contacts → |
“IJRDO Journal was founded in 2014 by Naeem Akhtar and Naveen Malik.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 |  TU Delft Librarytudelft.nlHQ: Delft, NetherlandsReported employees: 51-200 | Delft, Netherlands | 51-200 | Exact match | 51 contacts → |
“OUR MISSION; FREE FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE Knowledge sharing is the core business of the Library.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 |  Coguidecoguide.inHQ: Bengaluru, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | Bengaluru, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 32 contacts → |
“Integrated Research Suite for every researcher” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 |  Phoenix Bioinformaticsphoenixbioinformatics.orgHQ: Newark, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Newark, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 20 contacts → |
“Phoenix Bioinformatics is the nonprofit home of trusted, community-led research tools, resources, & database solutions, including MorphoBank & TAIR.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | Content Onlinecontentonline.com HQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 11-50 | Stockholm, Sweden | 11-50 | Exact match | 19 contacts → |
“Content Online provides you with essential and leading research from some of the world’s most influential publishers, working every day towards the betterment of humanity.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 | Publicienciapubliciencia.com HQ: Bogotá, ColombiaReported employees: 11-50 | Bogotá, Colombia | 11-50 | Exact match | 18 contacts → |
“Compañía líder en el suministro y gestión de información y contenidos para la comunidad académica, centros hospitalarios, de investigación y el sector corporativo.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 |  Deepdyvedeepdyve.comHQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Menlo Park, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 16 contacts → |
“DeepDyve is the company behind LitHub, an AI-powered literature-management platform offering researchers affordable, publisher-licensed access to scientific, technical, and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | ZENDYzendy.io HQ: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReported employees: 11-50 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11-50 | Exact match | 16 contacts → |
“Zendy has been created with an aim of radically facilitating access to academic literature.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 |  Scienceopenscienceopen.comHQ: Berlin, GermanyReported employees: 11-50 | Berlin, Germany | 11-50 | Exact match | 15 contacts → |
“ScienceOpen is a freely accessible, interactive discovery platform that is aggregating new records each day.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | JCS Online Resourcesjcsonlineresources.org HQ: Oxford, United KingdomReported employees: 11-50 | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11-50 | Exact match | 11 contacts → |
“JCS Online Resources helps schools around the world access high-quality trusted content to support exceptional teaching, effective learning, and student achievement.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Teldan Information Systemsteldan.com HQ: Ramat Gan, IsraelReported employees: 11-50 | Ramat Gan, Israel | 11-50 | Exact match | 11 contacts → |
“Teldan Information Systems is a leading global provider of information products and services for over three decades.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Research database providers: dataset insights
September 21, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
189 records in the displayed employee bands.
3 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 192 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
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- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
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The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: September 21, 2026.
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Research database providers by location
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What does Exact match mean for research database providers?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many research database providers did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 192 matching company records, 14,067 tracked contacts and 5,212 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
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The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
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Snapshot: September 21, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 research database providers worldwide. Snapshot: September 21, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/research-database-providers.
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RevenueBase records 192 matching company records for research database providers worldwide, with 14,067 tracked contacts and 5,212 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: September 21, 2026.
RevenueBase compiles business descriptions for niche-company discovery; each row shows a recorded excerpt where available. Adapt this search to find the companies and contacts you want.
Top 25 research database providers worldwide
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| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springer Naturegroup.springernature.com HQ: Berlin, United KingdomReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Berlin, United Kingdom | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 7,110 contacts → |
“Be Part of Progress - together we bring greater understanding to the world Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 | Ebsco Information Servicescareers-ebscoind.icims.com HQ: Ipswich, MA, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Ipswich, MA, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,332 contacts → |
“At EBSCO Information Services, we hire great people and let them thrive.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 | Nature Portfolionature.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 501-1,000 | London, United Kingdom | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 772 contacts → |
“Springer Nature publishes journals, databases and online products and services across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Proquest, From Clarivateproquest.com HQ: Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 741 contacts → |
“ProQuest, from Clarivate, is committed to supporting the important work happening in the world’s research and learning communities.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 | BMCbiomedcentral.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 201-500 | London, United Kingdom | 201-500 | Exact match | 656 contacts → |
“BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | Elsevier For Healthelsevier.com HQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: Not recorded | New York, NY, United States | Not recorded | Exact match | 200 contacts → |
“Publishing Health” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 | Springerspringer.com HQ: Berlin, GermanyReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Berlin, Germany | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 163 contacts → |
“Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 | FIZ Karlsruhefiz-karlsruhe.de HQ: Eggenstein-leopoldshafen, GermanyReported employees: 201-500 | Eggenstein-leopoldshafen, Germany | 201-500 | Exact match | 143 contacts → |
“FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure is an internationally leading provider of scientific information and services.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | Informatics Publishing Limitedinformaticsglobal.com HQ: Bangalore, IndiaReported employees: 51-200 | Bangalore, India | 51-200 | Exact match | 98 contacts → |
“Informatics provides affordable and cutting-edge information Products and Services to the Indian research community such as academic institutions, research institutes, and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 | SSRNssrn.com HQ: Ny, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Ny, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 94 contacts → |
“SSRN is an online repository of scholarly research.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 | Orbis Researchorbisresearch.com HQ: Pune, IndiaReported employees: 201-500 | Pune, India | 201-500 | Exact match | 78 contacts → |
“Orbis Research is a single point aid for all your market research requirements.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | ZB MEDzbmed.de HQ: Köln, GermanyReported employees: 51-200 | Köln, Germany | 51-200 | Exact match | 71 contacts → |
“ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften versteht sich als zentrale lebenswissenschaftliche Informationsinfrastruktur für Deutschland und Europa und als treibende Kraft…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | AL Manhalalmanhal.com HQ: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReported employees: 51-200 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 51-200 | Exact match | 71 contacts → |
“Al Manhal is the leading Arabic electronic information provider.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 | JSTORjstor.org HQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | New York, NY, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 65 contacts → |
“JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 | Ijrdo Journalijrdo.org HQ: Gurugram, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | Gurugram, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 54 contacts → |
“IJRDO Journal was founded in 2014 by Naeem Akhtar and Naveen Malik.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 | TU Delft Librarytudelft.nl HQ: Delft, NetherlandsReported employees: 51-200 | Delft, Netherlands | 51-200 | Exact match | 51 contacts → |
“OUR MISSION; FREE FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE Knowledge sharing is the core business of the Library.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 | Coguidecoguide.in HQ: Bengaluru, IndiaReported employees: 11-50 | Bengaluru, India | 11-50 | Exact match | 32 contacts → |
“Integrated Research Suite for every researcher” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 | Phoenix Bioinformaticsphoenixbioinformatics.org HQ: Newark, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Newark, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 20 contacts → |
“Phoenix Bioinformatics is the nonprofit home of trusted, community-led research tools, resources, & database solutions, including MorphoBank & TAIR.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | Content Onlinecontentonline.com HQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 11-50 | Stockholm, Sweden | 11-50 | Exact match | 19 contacts → |
“Content Online provides you with essential and leading research from some of the world’s most influential publishers, working every day towards the betterment of humanity.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 | Publicienciapubliciencia.com HQ: Bogotá, ColombiaReported employees: 11-50 | Bogotá, Colombia | 11-50 | Exact match | 18 contacts → |
“Compañía líder en el suministro y gestión de información y contenidos para la comunidad académica, centros hospitalarios, de investigación y el sector corporativo.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 | Deepdyvedeepdyve.com HQ: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesReported employees: 11-50 | Menlo Park, CA, United States | 11-50 | Exact match | 16 contacts → |
“DeepDyve is the company behind LitHub, an AI-powered literature-management platform offering researchers affordable, publisher-licensed access to scientific, technical, and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | ZENDYzendy.io HQ: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReported employees: 11-50 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11-50 | Exact match | 16 contacts → |
“Zendy has been created with an aim of radically facilitating access to academic literature.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 | Scienceopenscienceopen.com HQ: Berlin, GermanyReported employees: 11-50 | Berlin, Germany | 11-50 | Exact match | 15 contacts → |
“ScienceOpen is a freely accessible, interactive discovery platform that is aggregating new records each day.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | JCS Online Resourcesjcsonlineresources.org HQ: Oxford, United KingdomReported employees: 11-50 | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11-50 | Exact match | 11 contacts → |
“JCS Online Resources helps schools around the world access high-quality trusted content to support exceptional teaching, effective learning, and student achievement.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Teldan Information Systemsteldan.com HQ: Ramat Gan, IsraelReported employees: 11-50 | Ramat Gan, Israel | 11-50 | Exact match | 11 contacts → |
“Teldan Information Systems is a leading global provider of information products and services for over three decades.” Recorded description excerpt · September 21, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Research database providers: dataset insights
September 21, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
189 records in the displayed employee bands.
3 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 192 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: September 21, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Research database providers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Research database providers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for research database providers?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many research database providers did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 192 matching company records, 14,067 tracked contacts and 5,212 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
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Snapshot: September 21, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 research database providers worldwide. Snapshot: September 21, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/research-database-providers.
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